Scotland:  Dramatic Places - Historic Sites
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Artist:  Karol K. Mack
 
                                                                                                                                                         
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BRAEMAR
CASTLE

BRAEMAR
CASTLE

Braemar Castle
SCOTLAND

Dates from:  1200s
Associated Clans / Families:
Erskine and Farquharson
 

Braemar Castle began in 1628 as a hunting lodge.  The structure was badly burned in the first Jacobite uprising of 1689, losing its roof by 1715.  That same year, two-thousand warriors witnessed the Earl of Mar raise the standard of James VIII and III upon a small hill near the village of Braemar, marking the beginning of the second Jacobite uprising.  By 1748 Braemar castle was derelict; but it was eventually restored by the Hanoverian government, who commissioned John Adams, Scotland’s famous architect, to repair the upper floors.  The painting depicts a 2006 vantage.

Pictured

Braemar Castle  8" x 10" oil

An excerpt from the book Scotland:  Castles and Clans the Legends.

From:

 Gatherings

A Legend of Braemar Castle

. . .  I am Restoruis, the grandest fairy in our secret village, located in the Forest of Mar, a dark, uninviting haunt.  Centuries ago, some humans -- they call themselves 'Romans' -- named its pine, juniper, birch and hazel the Great Forest of Caledon.   The trees are as tall as twenty fairies head to toe, and the undergrowth is forbidding.  In places, one can barely see into it.  Yet, the forest grants entry to those who know the terrain; and from our sanctuary there, we survey the world, teeming with life and prosperity of the tall-ones traversing the Highlands crossroads before our eyes . . .

Told from the perspective

of Restorious 

Braemar Castle is included in the Highlands Map.

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